Philosophy and Logic of Predication - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philosophy and Logic of Predication write by Piotr Stalmaszczyk. This book was released on 2017. Philosophy and Logic of Predication available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates philosophical and formal approaches to predication. The topics discussed include Aristotelian predication, a conceptualist approach to predication, possible formalizations of the notion, Fregean predicates and concepts, and Meinongian predication. The contributions discuss the approaches proposed by Aristotle and Frege, as well as the division of classes into a hierarchy of orders. They reanalyze the traditional notions, and offer new insights into predication theory. This book contributes to contemporary debates on predication and predicates in the philosophy of language.
A Concise Introduction to Logic
A Concise Introduction to Logic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Concise Introduction to Logic write by Craig DeLancey. This book was released on 2017-02-06. A Concise Introduction to Logic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Truth and Predication
Truth and Predication - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Truth and Predication write by Donald Davidson. This book was released on 2009-07. Truth and Predication available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This brief book takes readers to the very heart of what it is that philosophy can do well. Completed shortly before Donald Davidson's death at 85, Truth and Predication brings full circle a journey moving from the insights of Plato and Aristotle to the problems of contemporary philosophy. In particular, Davidson, countering many of his contemporaries, argues that the concept of truth is not ambiguous, and that we need an effective theory of truth in order to live well. Davidson begins by harking back to an early interest in the classics, and an even earlier engagement with the workings of grammar; in the pleasures of diagramming sentences in grade school, he locates his first glimpse into the mechanics of how we conduct the most important activities in our life--such as declaring love, asking directions, issuing orders, and telling stories. Davidson connects these essential questions with the most basic and yet hard to understand mysteries of language use--how we connect noun to verb. This is a problem that Plato and Aristotle wrestled with, and Davidson draws on their thinking to show how an understanding of linguistic behavior is critical to the formulating of a workable concept of truth. Anchored in classical philosophy, Truth and Predication nonetheless makes telling use of the work of a great number of modern philosophers from Tarski and Dewey to Quine and Rorty. Representing the very best of Western thought, it reopens the most difficult and pressing of ancient philosophical problems, and reveals them to be very much of our day.
Logic for Philosophy
Logic for Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Logic for Philosophy write by Theodore Sider. This book was released on 2010-01-07. Logic for Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Logic for Philosophy is an introduction to logic for students of contemporary philosophy. It is suitable both for advanced undergraduates and for beginning graduate students in philosophy. It covers (i) basic approaches to logic, including proof theory and especially model theory, (ii) extensions of standard logic that are important in philosophy, and (iii) some elementary philosophy of logic. It emphasizes breadth rather than depth. For example, it discusses modal logic and counterfactuals, but does not prove the central metalogical results for predicate logic (completeness, undecidability, etc.) Its goal is to introduce students to the logic they need to know in order to read contemporary philosophical work. It is very user-friendly for students without an extensive background in mathematics. In short, this book gives you the understanding of logic that you need to do philosophy.
Aristotle's Theory of Predication
Aristotle's Theory of Predication - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aristotle's Theory of Predication write by Allan T. Bäck. This book was released on 2016-06-21. Aristotle's Theory of Predication available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book claims that Aristotle followed an aspect theory of predication. On it statements make a basic assertion of existence that can be more or less qualified. It is claimed that the aspect theory solves many puzzles about Aristotle's philosophy and gives a new unity to his logic and metaphysics. The book considers Aristotle's views on predication relative to Greek philology, Aristotle's philosophical milieu, and the history and philosophy of predication theory. It offers new perspectives on such issues as existential import; the relation of Categories 2 & 4; the place of differentiae and propria; the predication of matter; unnatural predication; and the square of opposition. It ends by comparing Aristotle's theory with current ones.
